{"id":183894,"date":"2023-09-01T07:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=183894"},"modified":"2023-09-01T07:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:12:32","slug":"lets-go-back-to-our-julian-assange-line-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=183894","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Let\u2019s Go Back to Our Julian Assange Line in the Sand<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Truth Getting Obliterated by the Propaganda Experts<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><em><strong>Author Note:<\/strong> Our English language word \u2018cynic\u2019 comes to us from the ancient Greek \u2018kynos\u2019 dog. A \u201ccynic\u201d attitude is the kind of dog that has had to scrap and pillage to survive, you know the one kids threw rocks at (as opposed to the happy family dog who is taken care of and loved). Not exactly your happy camper. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cynical philosophers such as Diogenes of Sinope (Pontus, south shore of the Black Sea today\u2014showing Khazarians did not have first dibs on the Hellenist world of Crimea) equally were cynical rascals. Whereas one step beyond being cynical is being sarcastic via Greek \u2018sarkos\u2019 flesh, that is, not just barking but biting into the flesh\u2014like Resident Joe Biden\u2019s dog does to some Secret Service Agents<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Z0pWjCE6iSQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"666362988\" title=\"Joe Biden's dog bit Secret Service 10 times\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0pWjCE6iSQ?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"rev-more-wrapper\">\n<p>by Diogenes the Cynic<\/p>\n<p>Declaring that many Americans, well for that matter, many people around the entire planet, are cynical is but a pale platitude. We do not just live in an Age of Anxiety and Future Shock (two book titles) but we live in an age of enormous political upheaval and political corruption, and much of the world\u2019s many, many people know it (if for no other reason than the anxiety disorders they are experiencing).<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, corruption levels out in the open today are so obvious and in-your-face they are continuously numbing us to a boiling frog impotence, as if we are shocked by the many tentacles of real, brazen, hubristic conspiracies played out panoramically on the stage of human existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conspiracy Theories are;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) interesting<\/p>\n<p>2) they force you to think outside the proverbial box, with alternative explanations which don\u2019t jibe with the \u2018official\u2019 versions (\u2018official versions which often enough are corrupted)<\/p>\n<p>3) they allow you to play a detective trying to figure out what makes sense or not. (Many very intelligent people study CTs)<\/p>\n<p>4) and, eventually, if you are honestly open-minded, brings your awareness levels to a point in which you realize that some so-called CTs are true! (And in fact, some CTs that seem the hardest to believe are also true).\u00a0Frankly, you cannot know the real world if you are not acquainted with conspiracy theories, including the many red herring CTs meant to discredit real theories that are true. Any Machiavellian would concede that much.<\/p>\n<p>Putting aside then the choice of junkyard dogs one might expect to find employed by a dockers Union on a New Jersey shore, wow!, it seems like a long time ago, when Seth Rich, a DNC computer programmer, revealed DNC emails to Julian Assange\u2019s Wikileaks, was murdered back in 2016.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_707242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-707242\"><picture class=\"wp-image-707242 size-full\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump.jpg.webp 1600w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump-300x169.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump-1024x576.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump-768x432.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump-1536x864.jpg.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump-696x392.jpg.webp 696w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump-1392x783.jpg.webp 1392w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clinton-v-trump-1068x601.jpg.webp 1068w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-183897\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/clinton-v-trump-1392x783.jpg-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/clinton-v-trump-1392x783.jpg-1024x576.webp 1024w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/clinton-v-trump-1392x783.jpg-300x169.webp 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/clinton-v-trump-1392x783.jpg-768x432.webp 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/clinton-v-trump-1392x783.jpg.webp 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/picture><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-707242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of TV Game Show Host Donald Trump and Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in the antiquated electoral college. Clinton\/Kaine actually won the popular vote by over 2,900,000 votes. But the US system does NOT operate by popularity so it was Trump\/Pence who took office and the USA is still paying the price for this weird system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This pivotal event helped destroy Hilary Clinton\u2019s chances of winning the 2016 Presidential election. See \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/fbi-reveals-it-has-more-information-on-deceased-dnc-staffer-seth-rich_887685.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener follow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">FBI Reveals It Has More Information on Deceased DNC Staffer Seth Rich\u201d <\/a>wherein it says:<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cJournalist Sy Hersh said in or around 2017 that he was told by a source about an FBI report on Seth Rich. He said, according to the source, that Seth Rich\u2019s computer showed the DNC staffer had relayed DNC documents to WikiLeaks, a pro-transparency group.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Way back then, amidst all that corruption! We nostalgically pine back to notions like those were the turning from the Good Old Days, when there was some pretense of normalcy and societal functioning\u2014that is, some premises about life in general that one could tentatively take for granted\u2014such as \u2018some\u2019 Bill of Rights still honored and protected.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom of Speech was still considered an American value and for some of us, an American right. More aware individuals realized that freedom of speech is such an important right it is the reason it was listed as the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, we came to realize the Second Amendment was equally important that it is, and was, necessary to secure the Peoples\u2019 First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Now both of these rights have been deftly conspired against, and many of us now realize there is \u2018nothing\u2019 sacred in our mortal conceptions regarding American freedoms and liberties (let alone sanity). In fact, even the Judicial branch of government (judges, DOJ, and FBI employees) has become highly corrupted and compromised. ALL OUR LINES IN THE SAND HAVE BEEN CROSSED.<\/p>\n<p>Just as we continue to allow an illegal White House to control our lives, we allow the likes of the conspiracy of January the 6th with concomitant barbed wire fencing surrounding the capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9147273\/FBI-warns-police-chiefs-high-alert-extremists-ahead-inauguration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">DAILYMAIL UK:\u00a0 Razor wire goes up around Capitol as more than 10,000 National Guard troops fortify the DC: Nation is on \u2018high alert\u2019 in response to multiple threats of \u2018extremist activity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we, boiling frogs all of fat and flesh, are now coagulating into soft and tenderized sacrifice victims for dark and bloody order. We have remained passive over and over again in inexplicable mind control contemplating one political wound while being attacked by another.<picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-707240\"><\/picture>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-183898\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/BoilingFrogs-1392x783.jpg-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/BoilingFrogs-1392x783.jpg-1024x576.webp 1024w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/BoilingFrogs-1392x783.jpg-300x169.webp 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/BoilingFrogs-1392x783.jpg-768x432.webp 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/BoilingFrogs-1392x783.jpg.webp 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many countries, especially in Europe, at least had 100\u2019s of thousands, and sometimes millions of protestors and rioters actively demonstrating against Covid vaccines and other governmental policies. Canada truckers rebelled en masse, whereas our country, with our presumed Bill of Rights, remained dormant, stymied, stupid, and beholden to subjective whim conspiracies like Qanon.<\/p>\n<p>So eternally gullible and hopeful we are so. Leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties should have been tarred and feathered decades ago, yet too many of the American Right still believe in putting some faith in this old, highly corrupted system, and its candidates, which a corrupted, hidden government, allows to reach voting status.<\/p>\n<p>Many, for example, still believe, Donald Trump, top salesman for pharmacy corruption vaccines, and behind-the-scenes friend of Hillary Clinton and Jeffery Epstein, Appointer-and-Chief of many Swamp Creatures and Washington insiders, is, this time, going to save the day! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Yeah right.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dead-clown-walking-trump.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-707241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dead-clown-walking-trump.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dead-clown-walking-trump.webp 596w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dead-clown-walking-trump-300x273.webp 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a>This huckster, this draft-dodging coward of a \u201cpolitician\u201d who succumbed to his handlers threw Julian Assange under the bus, even as he praised Assange\u2019s work of revealing the DNC emails and thus helping him secure the POTUS status as a pawn in the game. This incompetent business tycoon can\u2019t even live up to Peter Drucker\u2019s first rule of leadership\u2014appoint competent and trustworthy colleagues to run your organization.<\/p>\n<p>Almost none of his appointees came from outside the Beltway swamp. There must have been, at least, some New Yorkers he was acquainted, not connected to the swamp, who could have helped reach some of Trump\u2019s many promises. ALL TALK AND NO SHOW.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_WerCyjwQgA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"737639532\" title=\"Vincent Price Sideshow Barker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_WerCyjwQgA?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>OK, maybe President Donald Trump accomplished some things. Jim Fetzer says some positive things about his potential in 2024 as the only practical stance we as a culture likely have. Listen to his podcast at minute 42:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" title=\"\u201cAuthentic News with Jim Fetzer, August 17, 2023 Hour 2\u201d \u2014 Republic Broadcasting Network\" src=\"https:\/\/www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org\/authentic-news-with-jim-fetzer-august-17-2023-hour-2\/embed\/#?secret=RsC2wcbtMB#?secret=VLR7mi7VGE\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" data-secret=\"VLR7mi7VGE\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting perspective in favor of Trump is on Patrick Slattery\u2019s podcast with the almost always brilliant Mark Collett at minute 35:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" title=\"\u201cNational Bugle Radio with Patrick Slattery 08.14.23\u201d \u2014 Republic Broadcasting Network\" src=\"https:\/\/www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org\/national-bugle-radio-with-patrick-slattery-08-14-23\/embed\/#?secret=ZKcxCBcOqk#?secret=VYswzphxcJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" data-secret=\"VYswzphxcJ\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, these conclusions are for a caged-up population, the problem here is that Americans can\u2019t break free of the limited choices allowed by shadow governments that control us.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Republican and Democratic parties and many remnants of this viral cancer government should have been rejected a long time ago. It is a corpse of dripping pustules and toxic tumors. Beyond being way too corrupted, MAGA people are fooling themselves AGAIN. Even if candidate and eternally prosecuted Donald Trump\u2019s intentions were, and are, authentic, he would likely be snuffed.<picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-707237\"><\/picture>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-183899\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/julian-assange-line-sand-1392x772.jpg-1024x568.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/julian-assange-line-sand-1392x772.jpg-1024x568.webp 1024w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/julian-assange-line-sand-1392x772.jpg-300x166.webp 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/julian-assange-line-sand-1392x772.jpg-768x426.webp 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/julian-assange-line-sand-1392x772.jpg.webp 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange had the courage and foresight to face the truth and reveal to the world the political dangers raging around the world! What political candidates are expressing concern and action for Assange\u2019s rights and freedom? Only JFK Junior said: \u201cI\u2019ll pardon brave truth-tells like Julian Assange and investigate the corruption and crimes they exposed. This isn\u2019t the Soviet Union. The America I love doesn\u2019t imprison dissidents\u201d! Yeah, he is surely getting support by the mainstream mocking media MMM. Yes JFK Junior is blind-sighted on Israel and this is a deep issue.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"easyazon-popover-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"easyazon-link easyazon-popover-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?ASIN.1=B094GP2SLN&amp;Quantity.1=1&amp;AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIPC5Z4GS4QLK43FQ&amp;AssociateTag=veteranstoday-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-cart=\"y\" data-cloak=\"n\" data-identifier=\"B094GP2SLN\" data-locale=\"US\" data-localize=\"y\" data-popups=\"y\" data-tag=\"veteranstoday-20\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"easyazon-image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51SCXDOiZvL._SL500_.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/span>Ron DeSantis is another sell-out to free speech and an Israeli Firster. He signed an antisemite law basically making it illegal to criticize Jews and Israel in the State of Florida! This is very, very dangerous to Americans and our purported values. He would undoubtedly do this on a national scale if he became President.<\/p>\n<p>He, like so many Zionist Christians, has confused Zionist goals with Christian goals. Christianity\u2019s cardinal moral ethics purports that all the world\u2019s people are equal under God\u2019s governance whereas the Old Testament and the Talmud claim Jews are a special race of people and are not equal.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Trump, despite right-wing pundits claiming he was disempowered by the swamp, was great for Israel. He didn\u2019t have any problem getting their goals obtained. In fact, as most are aware, our supposed government is dominated by the Jewish lobby, and much of the Democratic party is dominated by a Jewish left, Wallstreet, the Intelligence Services and Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not just the people of the United States who are being bullied into controlled grids. The whole world has been corralled in by globalists of a New World Order. Unsurprisingly even a book is \u2018already\u2019 for sale at Amazon.Com on the Maui fire storms: Fire and Fury by Dr. Miles Stones promoting their Climate Change agenda.<\/p>\n<p>When we care to read about Julian Assange, a battle honest Americans of the left and right should have won long ago, we learn, of course, that resident Joe Biden\u2019s administration too is seriously prosecuting Assange on anything and everything to destroy him. Of course!<\/p>\n<p>biden dementia \u2013 joker narrates<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"u956he1lruc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"684292644\" title=\"biden dementia - joker narrates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u956he1lruc?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener follow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">ZeroHedge.Com<\/a> and search \u201cJulian Assange\u201d where you will find several important linked articles published. On August 13th the DailyMail.Com published:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk\/2023\/08\/not-much-time-left-to-save-julian-assange-from-extradition-so-please-act-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener follow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">HITCHENSBLOG:\u00a0 Not Much Time Left to Save Julian Assange From Extradition \u2013 So Please Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Hedges too has some important and alarmist things to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" title=\"\u201cChris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism\u201d \u2014 scheerpost.com\" src=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2023\/06\/18\/chris-hedges-the-imminent-extradition-of-julian-assange-and-the-death-of-journalism\/embed\/#?secret=yt3BXQjKM7#?secret=UXEGhsRzlZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" data-secret=\"UXEGhsRzlZ\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are several more important articles on Julian A. that can be traced via ZeroHedge.Com. They are well-argued in their original presentations. Suffice it to say the President of Mexico has offered Assange sanctuary and 48 members of Australia\u2019s parliament have requested his release! Yet American leaders and politicians are dead silent.<\/p>\n<p>They say frog meat tastes pretty good kind of like chicken. We the Deluded People are waiting for God to save our derrieres. It ain\u2019t going to happen. Stop wishing, hoping, and praying. Stop hiding your head in the sand and protest!! God helps those who help themselves. Stand up to this exceedingly corrupt government!!<\/p>\n<p>Clown Joe Biden is Mafia Don pretending to be a harmless and senile old man.<\/p>\n<p>Abide Biden. \u201cCome on man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to the common man is how careerist Joe Biden came up the ranks of his political establishment. He knows how to bullshit people. He is willing to promise anything and everything. He, like Barack Obama (and Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan), is a speechmaker. They know how to make you feel good like a good sales professional giving a feel-inspired speech.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe his lame moments of decrepitude were and are partially a show. Maybe he studied mob boss Vincent Gigante who used to walk around the streets of New York, like a debilitated patient in his pajamas, looking and acting like a pathetic looney tune, engaging in crazy antics, so that few passers would imagine him as some major New York crime Don.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, NYC is not so far from New Jersey which is the capital of Corporate America\u2013not blue-collar Democrats from Scranton PA). See the video below<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x39sdgz?autoplay=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe, what are you smiling about all the time when you are not blustering or getting mad?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is time some other people start getting mad and stop taking it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/2023\/08\/julian-assange-line-sand\/\">https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/2023\/08\/julian-assange-line-sand\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth Getting Obliterated by the Propaganda Experts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}